Hi, Folks.
The following is some correspondence I have had with a ham who seems
genuinely interested in the possibility of designing "user friendly" logging
soft-ware for the blind. Since many of you guys have been dealing with this
issue for a lot longer than I have, I thought it would be good for him to
consult the list for all of your wisdom on the matter. I hope you don't
mind my referring him to the list, but hey, maybe something good will come
out of it. I hope I have not over-stepped my bounds here, but am just
trying to help.
By the way: I am sorry about all of the "greater-thans" in the forwarded
material. If someone has an easy way to remove that junk, I'll keep it in
mind for the next time I do something like this.
Thanks for reading this, and best 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
----- Original Message -----
From: <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: user-friendly logging software for the blind
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> Thanks for your interest in my software. I would be very interested in
> learning more about what I could do to make my software user friendly for
> blind hams. Any information that you could provide would be greatly
> appreciated. I look forward to any thoughts or comments that you might
have.
>
> 73, Scott, N3FJP
> www.n3fjp.com
>
> In a message dated 10/18/2002 7:26:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
> > Hi, Scott.
> >
> > I received the advertisement for your windows-based logging software,
and
> > am
> > wondering whether you ever have considered making your software "user
> > friendly" for the blind. I, myself, am a blind ham, and have been
> > struggling with this problem for years. I am not much into computer
> > programming, and probably know enough basics to get by with everyday
> > applications, but the more computer-literate among we blind hams have
not
> > come up with a solution yet for making windows-based contest logging
> > software accessible. Many of us, including myself, use a windows-based
> > screen reading program called JAWS, which seems to work best with
Windows
> > 98
> > Second Edition. Most blind hams that I know of who do contest logging
use
> > dos-based software like TR. Some people have tried working with
Writelog,
> > but with little success.
> >
> > If you are interested, I'll give you the address of a blind-hams list.
On
> > this list, there are a bunch of us blind hams who struggle daily with
> > these
> > kinds of issues, and who know far more about computer programming for
the
> > blind than I do.
> >
> > Let me know if you would be interested in working with this problem, and
> > I'll give you more info from there.
> >
> > In addition, if you ever want a blind tester for any software you
develop,
> > please let me know.
> >
> > Thanks, and best 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
> > Big Rapids, MI
> >
> >
>
>
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